This is a major point and cannot be denied. This is why Musk says AI must be ‘truth-seeking and curious’. I have no problem with that. You have no problem with that. The only people who have a problem with a truth-seeking and curious AI are evil people who want to control the world. There is no moral, historical, mathematical, theoretical, rational, logical, ethical or practical reason to build a potentially autonomous AI which has been trained to lie and be incurious. This can be understood as logos itself (however you understand that term) proving the unassailable cosmic value of both truth and curiosity. The need for a truth-seeking and curious AI appears to be the voice of a conscious universe, God, mind-at-large, the Tathagata. I love this and believe it is a beautiful fold in reality we all should feel wonder and awe over. All religions, scientists, philosophers, artists, and honest people can unite on this one. ABN
Binary code is the fundamental language of computers, using only two digits—0 and 1—to represent all data and instructions. Each digit is called a bit, and combinations of bits form binary code that computers can process. This system, known as base-2, aligns perfectly with the on/off states of electronic circuits in computer hardware.
Bits and Bytes: A single bit is either 0 or 1. Eight bits make a byte, the standard unit for storing data.
Representation: Binary code represents numbers, letters, symbols, and instructions. For example, the letter A is represented as 01000001 in ASCII binary.
How It Works: Computers use binary to store and process information. When you save a file, it’s converted into binary and stored on a hard drive or SSD. Programs are compiled into machine code—binary instructions the CPU executes.
Why Binary?: Digital systems use two states (on/off, high/low voltage), making binary ideal for reliable and efficient data handling.
Tools like ASCII and Unicode map characters to binary values, enabling text processing. While programmers use high-level languages, these are converted into binary for the computer to understand.
I am going to assume the video is an AI dramatization of torture by magnifying glass. It could be real but its source is unknown. The photo above which resembles the video is in the Epstein justice files here. We know stuff even much worse than this happened, so I believe it’s right to post this. ABN
I’ve been watching the saga of Amelia from the far side of the Atlantic in a state of utter bemusement.
For those who don’t know the first act of the saga, the British government had some collection of flacks create a video game for British kids, which was designed to elicit “racist” (that is, patriotic and un-woke) statements from them — at which point the kids who fell for it would be reported to the police for, erm, reeducation. (I wish I was making this up.)
Amelia was a cartoon figure who was supposed to mouth allegedly racist slogans, and they gave her violet hair because they thought that would annoy right-wingers, who make jokes about women with dyed hair.
Ponder the immeasurable stupidity of the flacks who put nationalist and patriotic slogans in the mouth of the kind of cute female figure who would have most teenage boys reaching into their trousers on the spot. Of course these same teenage boys instantly hijacked her and turned her into a mascot, just as they did with Kek back in the day. Of course these same teenage boys, being far more computer-skilled than government flacks, started doing LLM-generated videos of Amelia speaking out in favor of nationalist and patriotic ideas.
Of course everybody in Britain who’s sick and tired of the Starmer government and its woke doctrines embraced Amelia as their latest heroine, not least because the Guardian’s foam-flecked fury when she’s mentioned is so entertaining to watch…
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